Minneapolis Institute of Art
Mountain Landscape with Five Bridges
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
- Date
- 18th century
- Medium
- Etching
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Dolomite Mountains form a curtain backdrop to the city of Venice. Here Canaletto takes us up into their rugged terrain. Is there really a spot with such a complex of bridges and cascades? We don’t know, but something inspired the artist to populate this scene with a range of social status from the rich occupants of a fine coach at left, to the workers transporting heavy loads on a horse cart and in baskets on their backs, to an executed man hanging from a gallows at the far right. Italy, Europe
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